07/05/13
CVE 2013-1059
Linux Kernel versions 3.9.8, 3.10 and prior are prone to a vulnerability, which can be exploited to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). The vulnerability is caused due to a NULL pointer dereference error in Ceph when handling "auth_reply" messages. This can be exploited to crash the kernel by a specially crafted Ceph message.